It wasn’t until the following year, after the Soviet nuclear safety team’s organization had been dissolved, that its findings were published as an appendix to an updated version of the original IAEA report on the Chernobyl accident. Seeking to redress the inaccuracies of their 1986 account based on what they described as “new information,” the IAEA experts revealed at last the true magnitude of the technical cover-up surrounding the causes of the disaster: the long history of previous RBMK accidents, the dangerous design of the reactor, its instability, and the way its operators had been
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